East wins 122-120
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East 120-119 in OT


Wade MVP

Please tell me those thos aren't the real east jerseys? They look HORRIBLE.

I hopes we doesn't get embarassed. I mean our starting five is good, but only when playing maybe two all-star players and scrubs. You can't play any help defense here because the player you are leaving open is just as good as they guy you are going to double cover.

I'll be pissed if Avery Johnson does put out KG at the point, Dirk at the two, Duncan at PF, Yao at center and Gasol at SF out against us - how can you friggin play against that?? I guess you better hope Hamilton is hitting his shots because Pau won't be able to keep track of him running all over the floor. Of course we won't be able to stop a shot...

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125-117 EAST

CB4MVP

If Rasheed gets a tech does that count for his season total?

I want him to get two techs and the boot. He doesn't wanna be there anyways. So let him give some loot to charity, leave early and sit with his wife on the gulf of mexico sipping coronas like he really wants to.

Since its in Houston... TMAC will get mvp. West wins this one.

How the hell is the athletic trainer from the Magic the Trainer for the East?

Great thread there, Matt.

thanks H1Man :)

anyone interested in a gamechat?

http://www.pistonsbball.com/chat/flashchat.php

Ok i'm there.

destiny's child didnt where the wrong jerseys this time [smilie=applause.gi:

destiny's child didnt where the wrong jerseys this time [smilie=applause.gi:

they sounded niiiiice.

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Yao greets the crowd.......with subtitles for some reason...


8:45 pm [matt]: why did they have subtitles for Yao???
8:45 pm [matt]: LOL
8:46 pm [matt]: it didn't even say what he really said....
8:46 pm [unclecliffy]: HAHAHAHHA
8:46 pm [unclecliffy]: I didn't even notice that till i hit rewind on my dvr
8:46 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: they tried to guess what he meant to say
8:46 pm [matt]: hahahaha, that was classic

8:53 pm [matt]: LOL@TMAc
8:53 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: lol@shaq play pg
8:53 pm [H1Man]: lol@shaq dribbling
8:54 pm [unclecliffy]: lol@yao
8:54 pm [H1Man]: lol@kbe
8:54 pm [matt]: lol@yao
8:54 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: lol@yao

who is die muthafucka die?

y'all probably assuming it's me, but it isn't.


oh and when they announced Destiny's Child, I was expecting Geto Boys.

Announcer: Now a special reunion of Houston's own...

Me: GETO BOYS!!!

Announcer: Destiny's Child.

Me: Damn! well they look better at least.

Doug Collin's sweet hair...


:59 pm [unclecliffy]: HAHAHAHA
8:59 pm [unclecliffy]: Doug collins
8:59 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: Sisqo collins
8:59 pm [unclecliffy]: HAHAHAHA
8:59 pm [H1Man]: 7 To's already in the game
8:59 pm [matt]: LOL@DOUG COLLIN'S HAIR

The Pistons make their debut


9:02 pm [unclecliffy]: the 4 tops are coming in
9:02 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: lol@shaq
9:02 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: SG Shaq
9:03 pm [matt]: Deeeeeeeetroit Baaaaaaaasketballll!!!!!
9:03 pm [matt]: YES
9:03 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: We Own this
9:03 pm [unclecliffy]: THE BALL DON'T LIE
9:03 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: shaq is a piston
9:03 pm [matt]: OMG
9:03 pm [H1Man]: lol@shaq
9:03 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: lol
9:03 pm [matt]: <----gouges eyes out
9:03 pm [unclecliffy]: that fat fuck is going to break the rim
9:04 pm [matt]: CHHCHCCHCHAuncey
9:04 pm [unclecliffy]: chauncey is crazy
9:04 pm [H1Man]: mr.big shot with the 3
9:04 pm [matt]: HAHAH, this is awesome
9:04 pm [unclecliffy]: THIS LINEUP IS UNSTOPPABLE
9:04 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: its getting serious
9:05 pm [matt]: they don't know how to NOT play defense, LOL
9:05 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: naw they dont
9:05 pm [matt]: it's in their blood.....they forget it's an ASG
9:05 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: except against james
9:05 pm [H1Man]: none of our players are suited for the ASG
9:05 pm [matt]: watch Flip play the Pistons 4 for 30 minutes straight
9:05 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: its great
9:06 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: we'll blow them out
9:06 pm [matt]: he'll forget it's an ASG.....keep them in
9:06 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: ha

9:10 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: lol@ben
9:10 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: ben for three!!!!!!!!
9:10 pm [matt]: ratings are plummeting with the Pistons in, lol
9:10 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: lol
9:11 pm [H1Man]: sheed with a lefty 3
9:11 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: fuck the nba
9:11 pm [matt]: SHEED W/ a lefty three
9:11 pm [matt]: Sheed should been in the three point shootout
9:11 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: we're playing too much defense
9:11 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: lol
9:11 pm [matt]: i know, lol
9:12 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: ooooo
9:12 pm [matt]: NICE
9:12 pm [H1Man]: nice pass
9:12 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: we slowed the game down
9:12 pm [matt]: lol, chauncey on KG
9:12 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: off dirk's leg
9:13 pm [matt]: Tayshaun is silenty weeping somewhere, watching Pierce in the lineujp

Pistons playing.......Pistons-esque :)


9:18 pm [matt]: lol@chauncey calling out plays
9:19 pm [H1Man]: only 1 To since the pistons are in
9:19 pm [matt]: Bosh + the Pistons.......drool-worthy
9:19 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: lol@our efficiently
9:19 pm [matt]: hahaha
9:19 pm [unclecliffy]: how many pts for chauncey?
9:20 pm [Die Muthafucka Die]: lol5
9:20 pm [matt]: 5 maybe?

THIS IS THE MOST BORING GAME EVER

THIS IS THE MOST BORING GAME EVER

Might have something to do with our guys trying to play defense.

yeah, the game's been average at best.

i think the best games are when you see guys like Kobe vs Wade or Vince vs Tmac going at it, trying to top each other.

Yeah... this game sucks. The entertainment sucks. The all-star festivities sucked.

They may be better off just giving the players the weekend off instead.

THIS IS THE MOST BORING GAME EVER

Might have something to do with our guys trying to play defense.At least when the Pistons were out there the game was close. When all the ball chucking stat whore prima donna punk bitches got back in, it was all isolations and missed alley-oops.

Stupid game.

At least the game is getting closer. 7pt lead for the west.

Chauncey, Wade, Lebron, Bosh, and Ben in...........only if Darko was an all star....

Chauncey, Rip, Pierce, Bosh and Ben (aka, supercharged Pistons) in.

96-92 West lead 1:45 to go in the 3rd.

Ben changes the All-Star game on the defensive end w/ 2 blocks on Gasol!!

Double blocks on Pau Gasol! SIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!

2 blocks in a row on Pau by Ben.

LMFAO@Gasol. He got SONNED.

Dude doesn't belong in this game.

Maybe Gasol could be the mascot for The Stands?

Maybe Gasol could be the mascot for The Stands?LMFAO!!!!!

I wonder what the tv ratings are for this game? Maybe they should just move it to ABC. Judging from the weak chat and game thread, nobody is watching it except a few losers like me.

lol@shaq yelling "Yeah, Big Ben!!" when he blocked Gasol.

Chauncey is crazy.

the Pistons bring back the East squad to a 101-99 lead after being down by 20.

i love when doug collins predicts plays.....it gives me tingles.

LOL the Pistons are owning the West.

A giant LOL@anybody who doesn't think the 4 Pistons deserve to be All-Stars.

They should've had Mason as the announcer at the game.

^LMFAO!! I was just thinking that.

lol, did you guys here the "Sheeeeeeed" when Sheed jacked up that three?









(0-3 3pt FG, btw)

How many points do the Pistons have so far in the game?

And how many of them were during that 3rd quarter run?

You guys just missed Cowology in the chat.

Damn we were tearin' it up, even though Rasheed is missing. Great D out there agianst the West's 2nd unit, and the Wallaces clogging up the lane. Lebron is playing well with the two of em too.

The Wallaces and Lebron in the same frontcourt was awesome.

Damn Kobe.

crazy ending.

West scrambles and loses the ball. Sheed grabs the loose ball, outlets to AI, AI lobs it off the backboard for Vince, who misses the dunk all the way to half court.....if there was more time, the West might have had 1 last shot.

East wins 122-120

MVP goes to Lebron James who had 29 points.

That actually ended up being a pretty damn good game. I enjoyed it.

Wow, I was surprised when they said LeBron had 2 assists. Didn't realize he passed the ball that many times.

Sheed had one noteworthy play all game: the steal at the end.

[The Lounge]: Cowology has entered at 11:31 pm
11:31 pm [matt]: mooooo
[The Lounge]: Cowology has left at 11:32 pm

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11:33 pm [geerussell]: This should count as a piston W
11:33 pm [geerussell]: 43-9
11:33 pm [matt]: haha, true

It would have been cool to see the Yao, Duncan, Gasol, Dirk and KG lineup on the floor when the Pistons were in.

7 Foot lineup!

PS 700th post.

Chauncey got robbed of the MVP. Lebron put way more shots and still had half his impact on the game.

Whatever though, he's the "new Jordan" league pretty boy.

So we could laugh at how bad the pistons would have owned them. Yes i agree.

Should have given the MVP to the four Pistons. They changed the game, put the East ahead where they stayed.

Since TMac was traded to the West, they are 0-2 in the AS game.

Damn Kobe.
Chokage

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/7333/pictures02/brtchoke1.jpg
Spent too much time being jealous of lebron.

Great game.

I'm glad the Pistons did the damn thing down the stretch.

Announcer: Now a special reunion of Houston's own...

Me: GETO BOYS!!!

Announcer: Destiny's Child.

Me: Damn! LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!

that symphony orchestra was awesome, i caught the tail end of that rap song, and there performance of crazy train. if they made an album, id get it.

My 2 cents...

I enjoyed the game too. But...

I kept telling myself...these aren't the best NBA players, these are the players fans voted in on past performance...and it has nothing to do with teamwork. It's about ESPN highlight real stuff.

But a good show. Lebron, Wade, Kobe are great to watch.

TMac, VCarter, etc are starting to show their age or injuries. But when TMac was going off in the first half, I was thinking...damn the one Piston who ISN"T FRIGGIN HERE, IS THE ONE WE NEED! Tays Defense would have been nice for Flip to have, but the All Star game isn't about Defense, so it all worked out.

Glad the Pistons got some props for their play.

I thought at least when Lebron was asked what led them back, instead of Charles Barkley's comments, he should have said 'Them Pistons, without them we would have lost and I never would have gotten MVP.'

[smilie=arnold.gif] The Pistons were the reason that the East came back and won. Like darkobetterthanmelo said, Pistons should have gotten the team MVP.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dailydime-060220


Hitting the highs and lows

By John Hollinger
ESPN Insider

Here's my best and worst from Sunday's NBA All-Star weekend in Houston:

Worst no-call: LeBron against T-Mac. James's rake of McGrady's arm on the West's final shot was so egregious that he openly admitted to fouling afterward. "On his way up I got a piece of his arm and a piece of the ball, which made it short," James said. Making it worse was that McGrady was playing in front of the home crowd and making a bid for game MVP honors, and that the West would have tied the game with two McGrady free throws. "I guess it was a great defensive play, I guess," James sheepishly said afterward.

Best missed free throw: Shaquille O'Neal. Rather than merely throw up his usual brick, Shaq decided to go whole hog and give himself an alley-oop off the board for a monster dunk. The zebras waved it off, of course, but it was emblematic of the fun Shaq had all night -- running the point, posing after dunks, teasing teammates and opponents, and generally acting like the giant kid he is.

Worst time to get sick: Pau Gasol, Grizzlies. Gasol was the first Grizzly and first Spaniard to play in an All-Star game, but not the first Grizzly and first Spaniard to actually score in an All-Star game. A bout with illness left him hotel-bound for most of the weekend, and even though Gasol felt well enough to play by Sunday he was much less than 100 percent. It showed, too, as he went scoreless and had consecutive shots shoved in his face by Ben Wallace in the third quarter.

Best dressing room: Walter McCarty, Clippers. While the league's All-Stars were herded into a crowded locker room teeming with cameras and microphones, a little-used forward for the Clippers got a dressing room all to himself with a couch, TV and food service. McCarty's red-carpet treatment came because he sang the American national anthem before All-Star Saturday. "I need to be a singer," said teammate Elton Brand, who visited McCarty's lavish digs. "He got some special treatment."

Worst Mockery of a Once-Marquee Event: The Dunk Contest. The lunacy of the judging in Saturday's slamfest was the only low point in what was a generally well-received weekend. It consisted of two separate unthinkable happenings -- first, that somebody would break Chris Andersen's record for missed dunk attempts, and second, that the same person somehow would win. Nate Robinson, however, proved truth can be stranger than fiction, requiring 15 tries to complete a slam in the "dunk-off" and still leaving with a trophy.

Best B-List Celebrity Sighting: Harold Ramis. I was tempted to go with Sunday's Canadian national anthem singer, Jann Arden -- what, was Loverboy already booked? -- but Ramis takes the cake. After staying out of the spotlight for two decades or so, a star of "Stripes" and "Ghostbusters" was inexplicably brought on stage for an interview between events on Saturday. Best of all, the league immediately cemented his B-List status by calling him "Harold Ramous" on the scoreboard. Meanwhile, Toyota Center fans ducked for cover in fear of an attack by the Sta-Puff Marshmallow Man.

Best use of sarcasm: David Stern. An overwhelming favorite to take this category, the commish didn't disappoint during his state of the league address on Saturday. He was at his best when parrying questions about the eventual return of the Hornets to New Orleans, even including a bird flu reference for good measure.

Worst waste of a courtside seat: Fergie. Even by celebrity standards, the Black-Eyed Peas singer/eye candy was unusually disinterested in the proceedings. She spent much of the night facing away from the court to talk to various members of her entourage before leaving for good early in the fourth quarter.

Best use of a Black Sabbath song by a symphony orchestra: For the Western Conference's pre-game introductions, the Houston Symphony decided to break out their rendition of "Crazy Train." It worked, too, even though they disappointed fans by neglecting to have the violin player bite the head off a bat. (nice try stat boy, "Crazy Train" is not a Black Sabbath song --GD)

Best interview: Gilbert Arenas, Wizards. The always-entertaining Washington guard kept the press entertained on a variety of topics in Friday's media session, from his continuing indignation over being the 31st pick in the 2001 draft to his habit of flinging his jersey into the crowd after a game. He also revealed he brought jerseys of all last season's All-Stars and had slowly been getting them signed throughout the season, finishing the last one just this week.

Best dance move by a 7-foot-6 Chinese guy: Yao Ming. We're not sure what to call that arm-waggle thing the Western starters did one after the other during pre-game introductions, but it was impressive that Yao finished the move with a flourish. "We didn't know if Yao was going to cop out on us," said McGrady afterward, "[but] he looked pretty smooth."

Best quality time: Tim Duncan. Apparently just because he's at work doesn't mean he can shirk his duties at home. While his teammates were warming up at halftime, the Spurs forward spent most of the break holding his baby daughter and chatting with wife Amy near the Western Conference bench.

Worst bus ride: A shuttle carrying media members took nearly two hours to get from a nearby hotel to Friday's rookie game when the driver departed late and then got lost, barely delivering the passengers before the game started. Those same media members were relieved to learn afterward that nobody much cared about the rookie game anyway.

Best mystery: Tracy McGrady. What's the personal problem that he's dealing with? Is it back trouble? Girl trouble? Money trouble? A vast conspiracy involving T-Mac, David Stern, Dick Cheney, and the dunk contest? Whatever it is, he's not telling, but inquiring minds want to know.

I have to admit, the entrance music was great for both teams.

From the Daily Quicky from ESPN2 this morning:


The Lead Item
Two Words For You:
TEAM. EFFORT.

Fans knew "team" would be the theme of the NBA All-Star Game when the starting 5s were introduced.

The East starters took the stage and immediately flashed Jackson 5-style dance moves. They were laughing at themselves almost as hard as fans on TV at home.

Not to be outdone, the West starters were introduced doing a 5-man worm, starting with Nash and ending with Yao. (Which 5 gets the edge? Novelty: East. Execution: West.)

But that was just a foreshadowing of the team of four Pistons, who first took the floor together late in the first quarter, and won the game for the East in the second half, punctuating the team's 21-point comeback.

I had disagreed with all four Pistons being selected as All Stars, but without their cohesion (and, yes, unusually attentive All-Star Game D), there was no way the East would have won that game.

(That's why I would have given the MVP to the lead rep of the Pistons Four: Chauncey Billups, who scored 15 points with 7 assists.)

The result was symbolic of the season: Individual stars are fun to watch, but if you ultimately want to win games, there's no substitute for team.

And even though I hate him, Bill Simmons had this to say:


• Paul Pierce getting to play with the four Detroit guys and relishing every second of it ... you know he was out there thinking, "This is just like playing with Brian Scalabrine, Raef LaFrentz, Michael Olowokandi and Orien Greene, only the exact opposite!"

And even though I hate him, Bill Simmons had this to say:


• Paul Pierce getting to play with the four Detroit guys and relishing every second of it ... you know he was out there thinking, "This is just like playing with Brian Scalabrine, Raef LaFrentz, Michael Olowokandi and Orien Greene, only the exact opposite!"

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... Tayshaun Prince returned from the Bahamas and caught part of Sunday's All-Star Game. Asked what he thought of his teammates writing his number on their shoes, Prince said: "You know, they're characters. They're going to make something up."...

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060221/SPORTS03/602210425/1051

I didn't know that the 4 starters did that. Did they mention that during the game or anything like that?

From RealGM......

bballguy9815 wrote:

Having the 4 pistons in the allstar game was a mistake they should not have made it over Dwight Howard and Michael Redd.When they were in the game it appeared they were playing their hardest and everyone else wasn't so all that scoring,rebouding,etc that all the pistons were doing they were doing that when they were playing the hardest while everyone else wasn't so all the stats they put up were Garbage.Although u do have to give them some type of credit for keeping the game close for the whole game and they won.But actually if all the guys on the west were playing defense and playing their hardest then the west would have won.



LOL

Q . What did LeBron James and Ben Wallace say to each other after Wallace air-balled his free throw Sunday?

A . Basically, James just asked, "What was that?" And Wallace told him, "You know, that's what I do."

James was laughing so hard he had to share the line with the East bench.

"He said, 'That's what I do.' "
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060221/SPORTS0102/602210360/1127

From RealGM......

bballguy9815 wrote:

Having the 4 pistons in the allstar game was a mistake they should not have made it over Dwight Howard and Michael Redd.When they were in the game it appeared they were playing their hardest and everyone else wasn't so all that scoring,rebouding,etc that all the pistons were doing they were doing that when they were playing the hardest while everyone else wasn't so all the stats they put up were Garbage.Although u do have to give them some type of credit for keeping the game close for the whole game and they won.But actually if all the guys on the west were playing defense and playing their hardest then the west would have won.



LOLhttp://www.bigbtv.com/Images/RealityTV/2005/TheBiggestLoser/Logo.jpg

From RealGM......

bballguy9815 wrote:

Having the 4 pistons in the allstar game was a mistake they should not have made it over Dwight Howard and Michael Redd.When they were in the game it appeared they were playing their hardest and everyone else wasn't so all that scoring,rebouding,etc that all the pistons were doing they were doing that when they were playing the hardest while everyone else wasn't so all the stats they put up were Garbage.Although u do have to give them some type of credit for keeping the game close for the whole game and they won.But actually if all the guys on the west were playing defense and playing their hardest then the west would have won.



LOLhttp://www.bigbtv.com/Images/RealityTV/2005/TheBiggestLoser/Logo.jpg

LMFAO!!